The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.